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Show WEARY OF LIVE. Tried to Kill Himself Because He Was Innonent of Crime. Frank Campbell, a man 47 .years of age, uiade an abortive attempt to commit com-mit suicide at midnight by taking an ounce of laudanum. When ho put the -drug into his -stomach - lie was at tho Raymond lodging house on First South street. Ho was under tho influence of liquor at' the lime, but ho had taken au overdose of tho laudanum and before ho could expire ex-pire the police were notified and Campbell Camp-bell was taken to the station where a physician was summoned and applied restoratives. He will recover, but when ho wrote tho following note he had a fanciful idea that he was going to do something else: I am tired of living. I have been accused of a crime which I never did by Richards HroB. If there has been any money taken out of the safe it bas been by some other persons. I die with a clear conscience and by laudanum. FRANK L'AHPBKIfh Campbell was formerly of Park City and was recently in the employ of Lau-nan's Lau-nan's meat market. |